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Gothic Tales

Gothic Tales

Gaskell, Elizabeth
Kranzler, Laura

Paperback

Series: Penguin Classics

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 014043741X
ISBN13: 9780140437416
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Feb 1 2001
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
Chilling tales that blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect

Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell combines historical incidents and otherworldly tales in this collection of classic Gothic stories. Disappearances, inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; while Lois the Witch, a novella based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to hysteria. In The Old Nurse's Story, a mysterious child roams the freezing Northumberland moors; in The Poor Clare, an evil doppelgänger is formed by a woman's bitter curse; and Curious, if True, features a playful reworking of fairy tales. Whether darkly surreal or micheievous, all the stories in this volume form a stark contrast to the social realism of Gaskell's novels, revealing a darker and more unsettling style of writing.

Laura Kranzler's introduction discusses how Gaskell's tales, with their ghostly doublings and transgressive passions, show the Gothic underside of female identity, domestic relations and male authority. This edition also contains a chronology, further reading and explanatory notes.

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